So he has quit, with immediate effect, to save the bank he loves, as it were.
The government paid an average of 50.2 pence for each of its 90.6 billion RBS shares it bought to save the bank from collapse.
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One says to you that she is normally cautious on investing in general and prefers to save money in the bank.
Microfinance encourages the poor to save but, unlike the Grameen Bank, BRAC also lends a lot to small companies.
While burying your money in the ground wastes its talents, most save via bank accounts or through the purchase of capital assets.
That is why I would expect the Office for Budget Responsibility to tell us in the Autumn Statement that the Bank's policy of quantitative easing is going to save the government money overall, even if the Treasury does have to send some money back to the Bank.
The decision, for instance, not to save Lehman Brothers, the big investment bank in New York, set off a cascade of bad events.
Expectations for central bank action are a bit higher across the Atlantic, after ECB President Mario Draghi said last week that the central bank will do whatever it takes to save the euro.
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So the Fed, the nation's central bank, took action recently to save the economy from recession by lowering the interest rate.
This past week, the head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi said he would save the Euro at all costs.
And given that the company prints money faster than almost anyone save the U.S. Central Bank, this actually makes sense.
That is because, though a passionate Zionist, Mr Beinart wants Israel to save its democracy by leaving the West Bank.
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If there is a serious problem at one of the non-bank affiliates, the company will be expected to do everything possible, including perhaps transferring assets from the bank, to save Citigroup.
The markets might be happy now, with news that the Central Bank of Europe is willing to step in to save the south, but it is the Sunday outcomes of the elections in Greece and France that will drive market sentiment.
Some economists have argued that this market makes his prescription obsolete: there is no need for a central bank to save a solvent but illiquid bank, they say, because the interbank market does the job instead.
Geithner is the guy whose judgment is so poor that in 2008, while serving as the New York Fed governor, he chose to save Bear Stearns and let another bank far more critical to the global economy, Lehman Brothers, go under.
As we wait to see whether Mario Draghi and the European Central Bank will tomorrow announce "whatever it takes" to save the euro (to use his resonant phrase of last week), it is worth reminding ourselves of the eurozone's unhealthy lifestyle (forgive my anthropomorphising please).
Meanwhile the island's largest bank, the Bank of Cyprus, appealed for a bailout deal to save the economy from ruin.
While the global media bashing goes justifiably unabated, what Anthony Jenkins of Barclays is doing right now is to try and set a workable framework of an ambitious goal for the bank (give him a break) with all his timed initiatives to save and grow the franchise.
Then there is the European Central Bank, which national governments can't influence at all, save periodically when they appoint the people who run it.
The bank was one of the first to announce massive job cuts as a means to save on expenses.
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That is why I would expect the Office for Budget Responsibility to tell us in the Autumn Statement that this quantitative easing policy is going to save the government money overall, even if the Treasury does have to send some money back to the Bank.
The bank, in essence, said it was willing to print any amount of euros to save the single currency.
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Newspapers have speculated that the bank was repaying a favour by taking on the loan: Mr Wulff enlisted help from Volkswagen to save Porsche from bankruptcy in 2009.
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EU. Luxembourg's role of honest broker is enhanced by the fact that it has few national interests, save for bank secrecy, to protect.
Indeed, they would gladly mortgage their own lives, give away every cent they will ever earn and, if necessary, turn to bank robbery if that is what is required to save the life of their child.
On Tuesday, a new multimillion-pound Left Bank flood scheme was put to the test, helping to save thousands of homes along the Trent from flooding.
The bank asked IDEO to help it find ways to encourage people to save more.
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